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I know it's been some time since you've
seen us on this what was meant to be a
“weekly” blog or “bi-weekly” blog wherever
and the reason is we've just been
immensely busy on a number of projects
which I'm going to talk about. But
hopefully we're going to go back to
vlogging more frequently so the main
reason we've been building is because
our new KarlTaylorEducation.com
project but I'm going to come back to
that in a minute. What else have we been
up to? We have the Hasselblad X1D camera
sent to us… Now this should be the new
Hasselblad X1D camera… it's not… it’s a
90mm lens for the X1D camera :-(
This should be the X1D
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Flash Gun - It’s NOT the X1D, it’s
another lens - Goodness me! 30
millimeter 3.5 lens the X1D? Still no
sign of an X1D. Third time lucky this
is the X1D. Ah Look - A thing of Beauty!
Beautiful new shiny Hasselblad X1D,
medium format, medium format. Look at
the size of that sensor, that beautiful
50 megapixel sensor, in a medium format
compact and… I have to say quite
lightweight but very chunky feeling
camera. Now, I only picked up one of these
when they were in prototype stage so
this is going to be lovely using this
I'm filming with Ben, he's over there, and
look what I'm doing I'm using the new
Hasselblad X1D camera… it's beautiful
medium format mirrorless camera and I'm
using it to test on a product shoot
because we're doing some videos here for
Hasselblad, some instructional videos
about using the camera and I'm talking
about how you can use the X1D tethered,
just as I can use my H-series cameras.
We're just showing the amazing
results we're getting from this medium
format camera. Now, here's a little tip
for you, I know you guys love your tips!
Look when you can't get the reflection
all the way down the bottle from your
scrim paper being cut off by the board
that you're sitting on, you wouldn't be
able to get this reflection (let me just
get that) you wouldn't be able to get
that reflection there because this board
is in the way here and here, so what I do
is I lay mirrors down either side on the
board and that gives you the reflection
back in this area in this area and then
you could just shoot another blank shot
to get the wood back again because
obviously you're working on a fixed
standard stuff now that's just one of
thousands of amazing tips that I've got
and keep in mind you can get them all
now for $14 for as little as 14 USD.
You can sign up to our new education
model KarlTaylorEducation.com our
monthly subscription service. I give away
tons of tips like this that will help
you with your photography, not just
product photography, but all sorts of
photography. So anyway I’m filming the
instructional videos for Hasselblad at the
moment, very excited testing the camera
in lots of different scenarios, so far it’s
performing amazingly and did some really
nice shots with our model Evie. Took her
outside “obvious skeleton - You'll be like
70 by the time I’ve got this right”!
I put her up on some rocks to demonstrate
the high sync-speed of the camera where
you can basically synchronize the camera
at any shutter speed right up to
2000th of a second so I was able to
block out the daylight and then capture
these amazing scenes just punching a
little bit of flashlight in from a
Broncolor Siros light into the scene
there was really
pleased with the results,
getting that effectively what was a
compact camera - a medium format
compact camera but I'm still very, very
impressive nonetheless. Right I know, it's
amazing isn't it! Right OK good!
…
We also went out and shot some
astrophotography shots. I wanted to test
the camera on long exposures and high
ISO settings to see how it performs and
it informed really really well. We did
some star trail shots and then some
30 or 40 second exposures, as well
at high ISOs - pleased with the
results as a test. Those will all
be featured in some new videos that are
coming out about that.
The Milky Way moves…
so we started early. We had
a bit of a Blair Witch Project moment
while we're out in pitch black and 1 in
the morning. We were by these rocks,
setting up a shot and then Ben heard
this scratching noise and it was a bit
spooky and then we look round there was
this giant rat eating a crab on a rock
right next to us in the pitch black!
We shone our torches and yeah gave us
all a bit fright! 133 00:07:55,930 --> 00:08:03,910 (background noise)
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You’re freaking me out!
It was quite fun, we had a
lot of fun going out and
shooting those projects with this
new camera. What else has been going
on? Ben has bought a new car which I
think you can see out there in the car
park, It’s that one! Ben has bought a new car!
We’re obviously paying him too much!
Oh look at this Ben, Wow what lovely
Quatro.. nice TT TF.. look at that
look at her look at him smiling!
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He's gone and spent a
load of money on that. What else has been
going on? Yes well we launched the KTE
website at karlTaylorEducation.com and to
celebrate because everyone has been
working so hard trying to get this thing
this thing ready and I took everyone out
in my boat for a little trip and drink
and day out to the don't work everyone
just to go out and celebrate a bit a bit
of R&R and team-building a bit of
fishing so that was good fun
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Let's tell you a little bit about
the KTE website you can see
here we've now integrated our LIVE shows
into the website so you can see we're
counting down to our next live show the
Emotion of Light and which is in eight
days time I'm going to do two live shows
a month one is going to be a life
photography show and then another one
will be a LIVE photography talk show will
get different guests on different
experts from the industry on talked
about different techniques and things
and all of this we'll have our live Q&A
so you can interact with us we've
launched a new course called Light
Source within this platform huge new
portrait studio lighting course we've
got other new fashioned lighting modules
in there we've got partner discounts
we're giving away prizes like Canon 5D
Mk4 and Siros lighting kit in
our competitions and check this you get
all of that all of that for $14 per
month that's right
$14 per month we've tried to make it as
cheap as possible for our members and
give them as much content as possible it
includes all our past courses all our
new courses all our future courses all
our live shows future live shows
everything we ever do and ever will do
is going into this platform and it's
yours for $14 a month so really hope you
can support us and check it out at least
and see what you think
easy to cancel as well so even if you
want to just check it out for a month
and see and have a look at some of the
new courses and you want to leave you
just push cancel though and you're out
that's it in your payment stop so it's
so simple to join and it's so simple to
leave if you want it to leave so please
take the time to check that out with
really really appreciate your support
and I think that's about it at the
moment and hopefully we'll be back to
you soon with another VLOG thanks very
much
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